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The RSS feed for tagged questions returns 'hot' questions by default. Adding ?sort=newest to the url has no effect.
For example:
It would be nice for the RSS feed for a certain tag to have the same results as the page for that tag (sorted by newest or anything else).
OK, this is now implemented -- the list by tag page has feeds specific to each tab (sort). You can find them linked at the bottom of the page, like all our other feeds.
They are labelled appropriately:
The highest voted is a little odd since it will be extremely static -- you'll get the top 30 voted questions in those tag(s), which isn't likely to change much over time. It makes sense as browse order but as a top (n) rss feed I think we need a time interval specified there as well, or something. Of course doing that would make it very similar to the "hot" rss, too, so.. hm.
1 this was the only tag based feed available before so the syntax is identical.
I bet that "sort=newest" isn't exactly what you want either, because a lot of people just don't get tagging and will put bad tags on the question initially. I bet you still want that question to still show in your feed if it's edited the next day to have good tags and your tag is added.
Use my frontend - I think it has the sorting ability you need, and if not, it seems to be easy to develop.
